Ephesians 2:4

Made Alive In Christ

³ We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us, ⁵ made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

Abundant in Mercy

Dead in Trespasses

For Us

In Me

In Sin

Rich in Mercy

Christ

Exodus 33:19

He said, “I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

Ephesians 1:7

We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

Ephesians 2:7

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Exodus 34:6-7

Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,

Deuteronomy 7:7-8

“The Lord was devoted to you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Deuteronomy 9:5-6

You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to listen
and did not remember Your wonders
You performed among them.
They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader
to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a forgiving God,
gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love,
and You did not abandon them.

Psalm 51:1

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bathsheba.Be gracious to me, God,
according to Your faithful love;
according to Your abundant compassion,
blot out my rebellion.

Psalm 86:5

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.

Psalm 86:15

But You, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth.

Psalm 103:8-11

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.

Isaiah 55:6-8

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 31:3

the Lord appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.

Ezekiel 16:6-8

“I passed by you and saw you lying in your blood, and I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live! Yes, I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live!

Daniel 9:9

Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against Him

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord: “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that You are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.

Luke 1:78

Because of our God’s merciful compassion,
the Dawn from on high will visit us

John 3:14-17

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Romans 5:8

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

Romans 5:20-21

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

Romans 9:15-16

For He tells Moses:

I will show mercy
to whom I will show mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.

Romans 9:23

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

Romans 10:12

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

Ephesians 3:8

This grace was given to me—the least of all the saints—to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of the Messiah,

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:9

He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.

Titus 3:4-7

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love
for mankind appeared,

1 Peter 1:3

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

1 John 4:10-19

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.